At the London Architecture Festival, the winner of the 2025 Davidson Prize was announced on June 10, during the ceremony to be held at Heatherwick Studio Making House. The team chosen for the 2025 Davidson People’s Choice Prize, sponsored by Humanise, will be announced this morning.
"It was a challenge choosing the three finalists from the longlist but we felt the chosen three teams proposed solutions that were well thought out and contextual in their approach, whilst also providing a framework to be replicated across the country. It was very inspiring to see the thought and care put in by the teams to understand their community and its needs through collaboration with local organisations and public outreach. I look forward to delving deeper into their submissions at the next judging session."
Lucy Watson, 2025 Davidson Prize Judge and Commissioning Editor, House & Home at the Financial Times.
2025 Davidson Prize finalists. 300 Homes within a Union Street Mile by Clifton Emery Design, Nudge Community Builders, Millfields Trust, Plymouth Energy Community, Devon and Cornwall Planning Consultants.
Finalist projects candidates to receive the prize:
1 House, 2 Homes... make a neighbourhood by Ash Sakula y Human Nature
A new model that builds more homes on less land while enhancing the public realm, fostering active streets, and creating space for local economies and green infrastructure. On a test site at Seaham in County Durham, 1 House, 2 Homes doubles density without increasing footprint. By integrating seamlessly into existing streets it makes infill and large-scale urban regeneration faster, more viable and less carbon-intensive than car-dependent expansion. The innovative house typology ensures every home has its own front door and reduces per-home material use, operational carbon, and infrastructure strain while delivering high-quality, affordable homes at scale.
300 Homes within a Union Street Mile by Clifton Emery Design, Nudge Community Builders, Millfields Trust, Plymouth Energy Community, Devon and Cornwall Planning Consultants
A model for the delivery of community homes in Union Street, Plymouth that can be applied to high streets across the UK. 300 Homes sensitively places a sequence of affordable rented homes with co-living features into the rich grain of an established urban high street, with multiple small interventions reinforcing the equilibrium of the whole community as well as local economies. Made off site and designed to a 600mm grid (from cabinet to room to home) the concept is replicable and energy efficient, providing imaginative communal spaces such as shared kitchens, workspaces and food growing areas alongside secure and comforting private home space.
2025 Davidson Prize finalists. Positive Disturbance – Realising Brownfield Potential by FLOC, MAZi, Hyem, Stef Leach, Broaden, Thurston Illustration, SHED, Artis, Henna Asikainen.
Positive Disturbance – Realising Brownfield Potential by FLOC, MAZi, Hyem, Stef Leach, Broaden, Thurston Illustration, SHED, Artis, Henna Asikainen
Positive Disturbance is an adaptive framework for transforming brownfield sites into thriving places where homes, landscapes, communities and economies can grow together towards a reimagined future. On an ex-industrial test site at Clasper Village, Gateshead the project explores ways of redefining urban living as a dynamic, evolving ecosystem – rooted in place yet adaptable anywhere in the UK. As part of a living landscape, the lifetime neighbourhood of diverse tenures draws on positive ideas of degrowth to foster coexistence between humans, wildlife, and ecology while reimagining resources, movement, and sustainability.
The winning team will receive £10,000 and a week of Hayes Davidson's support to help them present their project in front of key UK housing decision-makers. The aim is to transform ideas into reality, providing homes for the people of the UK.
